A video double feature this a.m., courtesy “eyeontv,” who yesterday posted to the YouTubes these ancient KXAS-Channel 5 promos featuring Chip Moody and shockingly topless sports guy Jim Brinson, who really puts the “action” in Action News. Moody, during this period, was particularly hunky — Dirty Harry, with only a…
ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” + Neiman Marcus 100th anniversary shindig in downtown + free alcohol + rented tuxedos + white people “dancing” = exactly what you’d expect. I expect this was posted to the Interwebs yesterday as part of some kind of extortion scheme? Also, a version for those who prefer…
Ponder’s just a few miles southwest of Denton; ’bout 430 folks live there, give or take. HQ’d there is a private school by the name of Freedom Christian Academy, where, my guess is, they don’t teach bar mitzvah classes. Probably a safe bet to say the phone doesn’t ring off…
In keeping with today’s hot-or-not theme, by which I mean this item about Benny Hinn-some and then some, I just browsed myself straight into Us magazine’s “story” from yesterday about Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson’s dry-hump party-party in L.A. a few days back. (As in: “They were on top of…
Abacus’ Chef de Cuisine Tré Wilcox, booted way too early from Top Chef back in August, has nonetheless been regularly providing the Bravo site with recipes for its “Football Foodies” page — like this week’s recipe for Beer Braised Sirloin Chili. Sounds good — good and complicated. Wilcox will also…
Grammy nominations were announced today, and though there aren’t just a whole lot of locals on the list — LeAnn Rimes (who barely counts these days), Brave Combo (best polka album, whadya think?) and the Combo’s Bubba Hernandez and Alex Meixner — there is one album recorded in Dallas up…
The Hardline’s Mike Rhyner and Greg Williams Lawyers. That’s the latest update on the continuing saga of host Greg Williams and KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket). The wind has drastically changed directions since I wrote in my November 22 column that “The Hammer” would be back on the air at The…
From The New York Post today, via Fox Sports: Jason Kidd was “on strike” last night, faking illness and riding the pine in order to expedite a trade that would get him outta New Jersey. And to where, you ask? Well … Another source said the Nets were planning on…
The Dallas Theological Seminary this fall starting offering courses in Chinese, though only online — for now. Says the DTS here, it wants to offer its “language-based theological education to Chinese-speaking people,” since, ya know, they do speak the “most spoken” language in the world. Which makes sense, strictly speaking…
I have so thoroughly enjoyed the barrage of mail and comments received about my $30,000 millionaire expose in last week’s paper version of Unfair Park. Even (or especially) the part when a guy wrote in calling me a “jaded, man-hating cunt.” I just wish he hadn’t held back, you know?…
We now know the perfect way to describe Benny Hinn’s hairstyle, thanks to 23/6.com. Grapevine’s Benny Hinn today tells Sen. Charles Grassley, via the Associated Press, to go take a flyin’ leap. Which would be fine, except Grassley’s the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee who wants Hinn and…
KDFW-Channel 4’s Rebecca Aguilar — gone, but not forgotten Courtesy Uncle Barky, this morning we find over at the Poynter Institute an article wherein TV news directors and general managers from across the country debate — long after the fact — whether KDFW-Channel 4’s Rebecca Aguilar acted properly when she…
Ninjatune This ridiculously small version of Justin Terveen’s photo doesn’t do it justice. A larger photo is available here. Per a Friend of Unfair Park, this morning I checked out the forum on DallasMetropolis.com, where, in mid-November, Justin Terveen mentioned that a photograph of his had “been selected by the…
I would just like to thank “kxmas” for posting to the YouTubes this clip from a 1975 interview with Roger Staubach. Though I’m not sure the best part isn’t when Phyllis George asks the Cowboys QB, “Do you enjoy it?” Oh, and in related news, Staubach is growin’. –Robert Wilonsky…
$30K Millionaires Great article! (“Douchebags in the Mist,” by Andrea Grimes, December 5.) I totally read it on my iPhone while cruising in my BMW 3 series (top down, of course) listening to “Ants Marching” by Dave Matthews. “Chris Chris,” via dallasobserver.com It’s about sleeping with hot chicks. You play…
Help wanted: Here’s a little inside Dallas Observer baseball stuff for you: Our editor, Julie Lyons, is departing in January to write a book; Girl on Top Andrea Grimes is leaving to attend graduate school at UT-Austin and continue her work as a stand-up comedian; staff writer Matt Pulle is…
The White Rock Marathon is all grown up. And all sold out. For the first time in the race’s 37-year history, organizers of Dallas’ second-largest participation sporting event were forced to cut off entries. At 15,000 runners. “Never thought I’d see this day,” says Bob Wallace, who won The Rock…
Just as ancient mystics ventured out into the wild to commune with nature and find divine guidance, I had to journey far, far out of familiar territory to find my power animal. This spirit guide would help me plan my future and calm my soul. I knew it would not…
Dennis Davis thought maybe his family was cursed. In early 1998, his uncle Don developed an aggressive skin cancer that devoured his face. Several months later, his brother Dale died suddenly at age 46 from stomach cancer. A few weeks after that, his granddaughter Makayla was born with severe birth…
“I find myself in a very uncomfortable position,” says baby-faced 38-year-old Somerville Independent School District Superintendent Charles Camarillo, clutching his elbows one recent morning while seated at a conference table inside his office. When the San Antonio native accepted his first-ever job as a district superintendent two years ago, he…
Paula Baade was two months pregnant when doctors learned during a prenatal ultrasound that her baby would be severely deformed and advised her to abort the fetus. On June 4, 1986, Jessica Baade was born at Houston’s Memorial Hermann Hospital with her liver, spleen, and large and small intestines all…
Barrel-chested, with shoulder-length white hair that very nearly falls into the category of “flowing locks,” Paul Riddell looks like an off-duty superhero standing outside his North Dallas condo. Behind him, a greenhouse takes up his entire patio save for a small stone walkway. With the insulated structure behind him, he…
